Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Patton, Andrew 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

Andrew Patton is the owner of an excellent farm of two hundred and forty acres 
on sections 23 and 33, Peotone township. He has prospered in general farming 
pursuits and in the raising of cattle, hogs and other stock. He is today more 
than four-score years of age but still gives personal supervision to his 
farming interests. His birth occurred in the north of Ireland in 1825. His 
father, Robert Patton, was also born in the north of Ireland, and in 1841 came 
to the United States with his family, settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
where for two years he followed carpentering. He then removed to Jefferson 
county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1852, at the age of seventy-five years. 
His wife, who bore the maiden name of Sarah Smith, was also born in Ireland, 
where their marriage was celebrated, and her death occurred in 1848, when she 
was seventy years of age. They were earnest Christian people, holding 
membership in the Presbyterian church. Andrew Patton, the fifth in order of 
birth in their family of seven children, attended school in County Tyrone, 
Ireland, and after coming to America served an apprenticeship as a blacksmith 
in the Baldwin Locomotive Shops in Philadelphia for three years. Following the 
removal of the family to western Pennsylvania, he there aided in clearing the 
land and worked on the home farm for about twenty-five years, when, in 1864, 
he came to Illinois and took up his residence on section 30, Peotone township, 
Will county. Here he has since lived and is today the owner of two hundred and 
forty acres of land, constituting an excellent farm which yields him ready 
response in good crops. He raises cattle and hogs and this branch of his 
business has also proven profitable. Mr. Patton was married in Pennsylvania to 
Miss Barbara Morrison, who was born in Ireland in 1823. She came to the United 
States with her parents in 1833, the family settling in Pennsylvania, where 
she gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Patton in July, 1851. Unto them were born 
five children: Robert, who is engaged in the real-estate business in Hartley, 
Iowa; William J., who is engaged in the lumber and coal business at Cleghorn, 
Iowa; Charles C., who is with his father on the home farm; Armour J., whose 
home is on section 28 of the old homestead property; and Dora, the wife of 
George Barton, a resident farmer of Will township. There are nine 
grandchildren. John having five children and Mrs. Barton four children, and 
there is also one great-grandchild. Mr. and Mrs. Patton are members of the 
United Presbyterian church and he gives his political allegiance to the 
republican party. He is deeply interested in matters relating to the welfare 
of his church and the community at large but has never sought to figure 
prominently in public affairs, preferring to give his attention to business 
interests, wherein he has met with creditable success.

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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